CEOs

Javier Fernández Alonso
CEO.

Degree in Business and Management from Deusto University (La Comercial).

He joined the Investments Department of Corporación Financiera Alba in 2006, and was appointed Chief Investment Officer in 2012.

He has represented Alba on several of its investees’ Boards of Directors. He is currently Director of CIE Automotive, Ebro Foods, Profand, of several of the Rioja vehicles (Naturgy) and Viscofan. His previous Directorships include Acerinox, ACS, Dragados, ACS Servicios y Concesiones, Euskaltel, Parques Reunidos, Clínica Baviera and Artá Capital.

He is also Director at several of the group’s venture capital vehicles.

Before joining Alba he spent six years in Investment Banking in London and Madrid, at Goldman Sachs and ABN AMRO.

He was appointed CEO of Corporación Financiera Alba, S.A. on 16 November 2020.

Carlos Ortega Arias-Paz
CEO.

He holds a degree in Economics (cum laude) from Harvard University. He subsequently completed an MBA at Harvard Business School.

In 2017 he joined Corporación Financiera Alba as Director of Strategy, leading the company’s international strategy and collaborating on investments in Spain.

He is currently Co-CEO of Corporación Financiera Alba and a member of the board of directors of Verisure Topholding AB, Rioja S.à.r.l (Naturgy), Atlantic Aviation, and is Chairman of Acerinox.

He is also a Director at various of the group’s venture capital vehicles, and is a Trustee of the Elcano Royal Institute and a Trustee of the United States-Spain Council Foundation.

He was President of the Harvard Club of Spain and continues to serve on its board.

He was previously a consultant with McKinsey & Company and has more than 23 years of experience in international investment banking at Goldman Sachs and Crédit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank in New York, London and Madrid.